Have you calibrated your monitor when using Photoshop?
Know that whether you're preparing artwork for print or online, you should calibrate your monitor first so that colors will appear accurately on your monitor.
After you calibrate your monitor, Photoshop compensates for the difference between the color space in which the image belongs and the color space in which the monitor displays the image. This ensures that screen colors closely match colors produced by a printer, video display, or different computer monitors, and that colors in Adobe Photoshop match colors in other programs as closely as possible. If your monitor is not calibrated, the resulting colors may differ significantly from the colors you originally saw on it. You don't want this, right?
In fact, calibrating your monitor is very simple. Just follow the step-by-step instructions and your monitor will be calibrated.
First, make sure your monitor has been turned on for at least half an hour, this is to stabilize the display.
Then adjust the light in your working environment to the brightness you normally use when working. In order to reduce the impact of ambient light on the computer screen, it is recommended that you work under fixed ambient light.
Then turn off all desktop patterns and change the background color on your monitor to light gray. This prevents the background color from interfering with your color vision and helps you adjust your display to a neutral gray.
Launch the Adobe Gamma utility located in the Photoshop/Goodies/Calibration folder (Windows) or the Photoshop/Goodies/Calibration folder (Mac OS). I launch Adobe Gamma in Control Panel, which is easier to find.
Now choose which version of the utility you want to use, step by step or control panel:
"Step by step", this version of the utility guides you through every step of the process. If this option is selected, follow the step-by-step instructions described in the utility. Let's choose this calibration wizard.
control panel and click Next, this version of the utility is contained in a single dialog box. If this option is selected, follow the instructions in the remainder of this section.
Click "Next". The default here is to calibrate the monitor with reference to the Adobe Monitor Profile as a starting point. If you like, you can click "LOAD" and select the ICC profile that best matches the monitor as a starting point to calibrate the monitor.
[Note] In Windows, the Windows/System/Color folder is displayed by default, which contains .icm files in 8.3 format.
Click "Next" to increase the contrast and brightness controls on the monitor to their maximum values. Please adjust the brightness control on your monitor so that the staggered gray squares in the top bar are as dark as possible (but not black), while keeping the bottom bar bright and white. After adjustment, their positions should be remembered. When the contrast and brightness change, the screen display will also shift and must be recalibrated.
Next, please select your picture tube type. Different picture tubes will also cause display differences. If the correct type is not listed, select Custom.
For Gamma, you can select one of the following options to establish the current gamma setting:
"Show Only One Grayscale" adjusts the gamma based on a combined grayscale reading. Drag the slider under the grayscale preview until the center box disappears into the pattern box.
Uncheck Show Only One Grayscale, which adjusts the gamma based on red, blue, and green readings. Drag the slider under each box until the center box matches the pattern box.
For Expected value, select the desired target gamma. For example, the default target gamma is 2.2 in Windows and 1.8 in Mac OS.
[Note] This option is not available on Windows "unrecognized monitor" systems.
For Hardware, select your monitor's color temperature according to your monitor manufacturer's instructions. This setting determines whether you use warm or cool white. To measure hardware color temperature, select Measure and follow the on-screen instructions. Generally, European and American countries mostly use 6500K, while Japan uses 9300K.
For Adjustments, if you know the color temperature of the final image display, select it here. Otherwise, select Same as Hardware. You need to be working at a different color temperature than the monitor's factory-specified hardware settings before you can choose a different setting.
Note: Likewise, this option is not available on Windows “unrecognized monitor” systems.
Save settings and calibration is complete!
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You can use third-party calibration utilities and ICM 2.0 or ColorSync-compliant ICC profilers without using the Adobe Gamma utility.
If you have already recalibrated your monitor using an ICC-aware calibration tool without changing the monitor settings, you do not have to recalibrate your monitor.
Gamma settings stored in the Monitor Setup utility (Windows) or Gamma control panel (Mac OS) in Photoshop 4.0 or earlier are not supported.